Archive for October, 2008

Mutual fund investors: Rights and Obligations

· Right of “Proportionate Beneficial Ownership” · Right of timely services · Unit holders entitled to receive dividend warrants within 30 days of date of declaration Unit holders have right to payment of interest at 15% p.a. in the event of failure on the part of Mutual fund to dispatch redemption proceeds within ten working [...]

LEGAL AND REGULATORY ENVIRONMENT

Mutual fund regulatory environment REGULATORS IN INDIA · SEBI – The capital markets regulators also regulates the mutual funds in India. SEBI requires all mutual funds to be registered with them. SEBI issues guidelines for all mutual funds operations – investment, accounts, expenses etc. · RBI as supervisor of banks owned mutual funds – As [...]

Cheapest and best life insurance you can buy….

For many of us who sell life insurance, we dread the call from the client’s nominee asking for a claim form, do we not? However, do we expect a call from a client to say “Thanks for the term life insurance that I took from you last year, I am alive, but am happy to [...]

Markets : Recovery?

One question on the top of everybody’s mind is of course “When will the markets recover?”. That is not just a difficult question to answer, but at best is a wild guess. However, the fun of prediction is to occasionally get it right! The market is a cruel barometer of corporate performance. In the preceding [...]

Hindu mythology and learning…

Many people know that Saraswathi (Saraswati) is the Goddess of Learning. Learning of course is important. On google you will find a lot of articles which say “what i learnt from Warren Buffet”, “what I learnt from Peter Lynch” or what I learnt from Rakesh Jhunjhunwala” or “what I learnt from Charles Munger” or “What [...]

Retirement purchases..

In every class on retirement planning one question which I always get a wrong answer is: “Will you buy big assets like house, car, etc. AFTER you retire?” It is met with an “obviously no. why do you even ask”. Well the obviously no is said and ‘why do you even ask is in the [...]